[NormsRevenge]

Rep. Jim McDermott (news, bio, voting record), D-Wash., said he thinks the White House wants to boast about extending jobless benefits in a show of concern for the downtrodden while at the same time unveiling a stimulus package that benefits wealthy Americans.

"If you're going to stab people, first you've got to give them a ham sandwich," McDermott said.

What "Iraqi Jim" may have actually been thinking..."If you're going to stab people, first you've got to get them to turn their back on you," McDermott said.

[NormsRevenge]

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 7(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
      S 23     YEA-AND-NAY      8-JAN-2003   1:41 PM
      QUESTION: On Passage
      BILL TITLE:  To Provide for a 5-Month Extension of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 and for a Transition Period for Individuals Receiving Compensation when the Program under such Acts Ends

	YEAS	NAYS	PRES	NV
REPUBLICAN	218	4		6
DEMOCRATIC	197			7
INDEPENDENT	1
TOTALS	416	4		13

--- YEAS    416 ---

Abercrombie	Gingrey	Oberstar
Ackerman	Gonzalez	Obey
Aderholt	Goode	Olver
Alexander	Goodlatte	Ortiz
Allen	Gordon	Osborne
Andrews	Goss	Ose
Baca	Granger	Otter
Baird	Graves	Owens
Baker	Green (TX)	Oxley
Baldwin	Green (WI)	Pallone
Ballance	Greenwood	Pascrell
Ballenger	Grijalva	Pastor
Barrett (SC)	Gutierrez	Payne
Bartlett (MD)	Gutknecht	Pearce
Barton (TX)	Hall	Pelosi
Bass	Harman	Pence
Beauprez	Harris	Peterson (MN)
Becerra	Hart	Peterson (PA)
Bereuter	Hastings (FL)	Petri
Berkley	Hastings (WA)	Pickering
Berman	Hayes	Pitts
Berry	Hayworth	Platts
Biggert	Hefley	Pombo
Bilirakis	Hensarling	Pomeroy
Bishop (GA)	Herger	Porter
Bishop (NY)	Hill	Portman
Bishop (UT)	Hinchey	Price (NC)
Blackburn	Hinojosa	Pryce (OH)
Blumenauer	Hobson	Putnam
Blunt	Hoeffel	Quinn
Boehlert	Hoekstra	Radanovich
Boehner	Holden	Rahall
Bonilla	Holt	Ramstad
Bonner	Honda	Rangel
Bono	Hostettler	Regula
Boozman	Houghton	Rehberg
Boswell	Hoyer	Renzi
Boucher	Hulshof	Reyes
Boyd	Hunter	Reynolds
Bradley (NH)	Hyde	Rodriguez
Brady (PA)	Inslee	Rogers (AL)
Brady (TX)	Isakson	Rogers (KY)
Brown (OH)	Israel	Rogers (MI)
Brown (SC)	Issa	Rohrabacher
Brown, Corrine	Istook	Ros-Lehtinen
Brown-Waite, Ginny	Jackson (IL)	Ross
Burgess	Jackson-Lee (TX)	Rothman
Burns	Janklow	Roybal-Allard
Burr	Jefferson	Royce
Burton (IN)	Jenkins	Ruppersberger
Buyer	John	Rush
Calvert	Johnson (CT)	Ryan (OH)
Camp	Johnson (IL)	Ryan (WI)
Cannon	Johnson, E. B.	Ryun (KS)
Cantor	Johnson, Sam	Sabo
Capito	Jones (NC)	Sanchez, Linda T.
Capps	Jones (OH)	Sanchez, Loretta
Capuano	Kanjorski	Sanders
Cardin	Kaptur	Sandlin
Cardoza	Keller	Saxton
Carson (IN)	Kelly	Schakowsky
Carson (OK)	Kennedy (MN)	Schiff
Carter	Kennedy (RI)	Schrock
Case	Kildee	Scott (GA)
Castle	King (IA)	Scott (VA)
Chabot	King (NY)	Sensenbrenner
Chocola	Kingston	Serrano
Clay	Kirk	Sessions
Clyburn	Kleczka	Shadegg
Coble	Kline	Shaw
Cole	Knollenberg	Shays
Collins	Kolbe	Sherman
Combest	Kucinich	Sherwood
Conyers	LaHood	Shimkus
Cooper	Lampson	Shuster
Costello	Langevin	Simmons
Cox	Lantos	Simpson
Cramer	Larsen (WA)	Skelton
Crane	Latham	Slaughter
Crenshaw	LaTourette	Smith (MI)
Crowley	Leach	Smith (NJ)
Cubin	Lee	Smith (TX)
Culberson	Levin	Smith (WA)
Cummings	Lewis (CA)	Snyder
Cunningham	Lewis (GA)	Solis
Davis (AL)	Lewis (KY)	Souder
Davis (CA)	Linder	Spratt
Davis (FL)	Lipinski	Stark
Davis (IL)	LoBiondo	Stearns
Davis (TN)	Lofgren	Stenholm
Davis, Jo Ann	Lowey	Strickland
Davis, Tom	Lucas (KY)	Stupak
Deal (GA)	Lucas (OK)	Sullivan
DeFazio	Lynch	Sweeney
DeGette	Majette	Tancredo
DeLauro	Maloney	Tanner
DeLay	Manzullo	Tauscher
DeMint	Markey	Taylor (MS)
Deutsch	Marshall	Taylor (NC)
Diaz-Balart, L.	Matheson	Terry
Diaz-Balart, M.	Matsui	Thomas
Dicks	McCarthy (MO)	Thompson (CA)
Dingell	McCarthy (NY)	Thompson (MS)
Doggett	McCollum	Thornberry
Dooley (CA)	McCotter	Tiahrt
Doolittle	McCrery	Tiberi
Doyle	McGovern	Tierney
Dreier	McHugh	Toomey
Duncan	McInnis	Turner (OH)
Dunn	McIntyre	Turner (TX)
Edwards	McKeon	Udall (CO)
Ehlers	McNulty	Udall (NM)
Emanuel	Meehan	Upton
Emerson	Meek (FL)	Van Hollen
Engel	Meeks (NY)	Velazquez
English	Menendez	Visclosky
Eshoo	Mica	Vitter
Etheridge	Michaud	Walden (OR)
Evans	Millender-McDonald	Walsh
Everett	Miller (MI)	Wamp
Farr	Miller (NC)	Waters
Fattah	Miller, Gary	Watson
Feeney	Miller, George	Watt
Ferguson	Mollohan	Waxman
Filner	Moore	Weiner
Fletcher	Moran (KS)	Weldon (FL)
Foley	Moran (VA)	Weldon (PA)
Forbes	Murphy	Weller
Ford	Murtha	Wexler
Fossella	Musgrave	Whitfield
Frank (MA)	Myrick	Wicker
Franks (AZ)	Nadler	Wilson (NM)
Frelinghuysen	Napolitano	Wilson (SC)
Frost	Neal (MA)	Woolsey
Gephardt	Ney	Wu
Gerlach	Northup	Wynn
Gibbons	Norwood	Young (AK)
Gilchrest	Nunes	Young (FL)
Gillmor	Nussle

--- NAYS    4 ---

Flake	Miller (FL)
Garrett (NJ)	Paul

--- NOT VOTING    13 ---

Akin	Kilpatrick	Tauzin
Bachus	Kind	Towns
Bell	Larson (CT)	Wolf
Delahunt	McDermott
Gallegly	Nethercutt

---

[goose1]

OOhh goodie another free-be for the lazy slobs to stay home and drink beer and complain what a Country.Hey boss man lay me off please.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Idiots....people still have to pay taxes on unemployment benefits so the money goes right back into the gov't coffers anyway.....

People are so damn stupid

[NormsRevenge]

From the SJ Mercury News -- President Bush has signed the bill.

Details of unemployment bill

President Bush signed legislation today extending the federal emergency unemployment program for an additional five months at a cost of $7.25 billion.

Here are some details and background:

--Most states offer 26 weeks of unemployment benefits. Jobless workers who depleted their state benefits last year got an extra 13 weeks of federal benefits that Congress approved.

--That program expired Dec. 28 because Congress couldn't agree to extend it.

--More than 750,000 people in the process of receiving those federal benefits got cut off Dec. 28, before they had received all 13 weeks. Those benefits will be restored.

--In the next few months, 1.6 million people will use up their state benefits. They now can qualify for the extra 13 weeks of federal benefits until June 1.

--About 1 million people have exhausted both state and federal benefits. They won't get any more aid.

--Bush had to sign the bill into law by Thursday to avoid delays in issuing benefit checks.

--Funding for the extension will come from the unemployment insurance trust fund, which has cash reserves of about $24 billion.

[hattend]

Come June 1st, they'll vote for another extension. Bank on it.

If I know I will always get these extensions (politicians will alway pander), and I can live on what they give me (not live well, but still live), why bother getting a job?